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A. Yes.
Q. And Hammerschmidt?
A. Yes, that’s
right.
Q. And will you tell the manner in which the selection was made?
Did they call you by name, how did they — ?
A. Well, we
didn’t have names. We had only a gown, on the left arm we had our numbers,
but they didn’t ask our numbers. With their finger they just showed at
each person whom they wanted.
Q. They just walked down the line
A. Yes.
Q. And pointed out the people they wanted for this job?
A. Yes. |
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Q. Will you tell the Tribunal where you stayed in Essen?
A.
In Essen, at the camp Humboldt.
Q. That was in Humboldtstrasse?
A. Yes.
Q. And were you told that it had previously been
occupied by Italian workers?
A. Before we arrived, this Humboldt camp
was occupied by Italians. They didn't even clean the camp when we arrived
there. It was dirty and we had to clean it.
Q. Were you in a position
to know or were you told that this camp Humboldt was on the property of and
belonged to the Krupp firm?
A. That is right.
Q. Was the camp
open? Were you free to come and go to any extent? A. No, there were SS guards
on the gate and the camp was around with barbed wire.
JUDGE DALY,
Presiding: I didn’t get that last.
MR. THAYER: The camp was
surrounded by barbed wire. And did you remain in the camp Humboldtstrasse or
did you after an air raid move to another location?
WITNESS ROTH: We
stayed the whole time at camp Humboldt.
Q. Will you tell the Tribunal
something of the living conditions in that camp?
A. When we arrived at
Essen, we lived in wooden barracks. It was in August. On 23 October was an air
raid, when the barracks were burned. Then we moved into one barrack, all the
500 of us, where the kitchen was before. We stayed there until 12 January when
there was again an air raid. We moved into the cellar, we worked, no light, no
heat, no baths, nothing at all. |
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